Chipleaders Past & Present; Plus Phil, Will, & Zoltan

Peter Neff (right) started the day as the chipleader, but lost a huge pot against Derek Gregory about halfway thru the day to lose his grip on the lead. Since that time, Jeremy Ausmus (left) has risen to the top of the counts with nearly 900,000 in chips.

Carlos Mortensen doesn’t have a ton of chips, but his above-average stack gave him enough to design an interesting stack, which is a rather simple structure compared to his high standards.

ClubWPT qualifier Zoltan Kovacs (right) earned his entry into this event by winning a satellite on ClubWPT.com. Even though Kovacs busted yesterday, he stopped by to check out the Day 3 tournament action, and got to take a photo with two of his favorite players — Phil Hellmuth (left) and Will Failla.

(No, Will Failla isn’t actually that short; he was goofing around and bending his knees to highlight how tall Hellmuth and Kovacs are.)

WPT reporter Jeanine Deeb interviews Sam Razavi on the break.